May
25
Tania Bruguera détenue par la police après son intervention à la Biennale de la Havane
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Artist Tania Bruguera Temporarily Detained During the Havana Biennial by Ari Akkermans on May 25, 2015
Artist Tania Bruguera was detained by Cuban police yesterday in her Havana home after concluding the final reading of her project, the Hannah Arendt International Institute for Artivism. Coinciding with the opening of the Havana Biennial, Bruguera started a 100-hour long reading of Arendt’s seminal book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, on May 22. The choice of the Arendt text, a political history of the 20th century from Imperialism through Totalitarianism, highlighting the crisis of the public domain, couldn’t have resonated well with the state-sanctioned art to be showcased in the Biennial, which ironically promised an engagement with the public space of Havana.
Artist Tania Bruguera Temporarily Detained During the Havana Biennial by Ari Akkermans on May 25, 2015
Artist Tania Bruguera was detained by Cuban police yesterday in her Havana home after concluding the final reading of her project, the Hannah Arendt International Institute for Artivism. Coinciding with the opening of the Havana Biennial, Bruguera started a 100-hour long reading of Arendt’s seminal book, The Origins of Totalitarianism, on May 22. The choice of the Arendt text, a political history of the 20th century from Imperialism through Totalitarianism, highlighting the crisis of the public domain, couldn’t have resonated well with the state-sanctioned art to be showcased in the Biennial, which ironically promised an engagement with the public space of Havana.
